Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
Inventor Daniel Cooper patented the first time clock in the US.
Over 400 people died in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
A Japanese scientist, Shibasaburo Kitasato, isolated the bacterium of the Bubonic Plague.
Mahatma Gandhi formed the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) to help fight discrimination.
Tower Bridge officially opened in London.
Labor Day became an official US holiday.
Karl Benz patented the gasoline-operated motor car.
The Polio epidemic took hold for the first time in the US at Rutland, Vermont.
The world's favorite soda, Coca-Cola, was sold in glass bottles in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA.
Milton S. Hershey founded Hershey's Chocolate Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US.
William Painter secured a patent for the capped bottle opener.
